Maxut (left) and Vassiliy were reportedly descending the Khumbu Icefall in unclear weather earlier today. Image courtesy of the Kazakh LET team (click to enlarge).
After calling their attempt off, Marcin Miotk's team built a memorial monument to the 1939' Polish Pioneers on Nanda Devi BC. Image courtesy of the expedition's website (click to enlarge).
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(MountEverest.net) Sergei Samoilov is being put to rest in C2; while the Kazakh LET and Lhotse teams are retreating through the Khumbu Icefall with heavy steps.On Everest North side, a few remaining climbers hope for a last chance. Bad weather forced back the Polish team on Nanda Devi East. Everest-Lhotse traverse: Survivors retreatingGroup 1 (Maxut Zhumayev and Vassiliy Pivtsov) and Group 2 (Svetlana Sharipova, Nikolay Gutnik and Dmitriy Grekov) are in Camp1 (6,100m) together, the Kazakh national team coach Ervand Ilyinskiy...
